Yeah all these concepts would be fairly easy to explain to someone from 100 years ago. Sure they would be amazed of how much more compact and affordable modern photography had gotten, but the concept is unchanged. Icecream is nothing new, masks are nothing new.
Until the very late 90’s you might have to explain the concept of a digital camera. Sony introduced their first Mavica digital camera in 1997 and it took awhile for the tech to catch on with the general public.
That’s mostly because digital cameras were known at the time to be extremely shit. I remember having a webcam in the 90s. It kinda sorta worked, but even in high res picture mode is was 640x480 and the images looked like shit. So it would be more a case of convincing people a digital camera can be as good as an old school one. The concept itself would be familiar. In fact, calling it a webcam instead of a digital camera would be a lot easier for a 90s person to understand.
Ah yes, things people weren’t aware of in the 90s: masks, respiratory illness, mobile phones, cameras, and ice cream.
Granted that exact form factor of combination phone/camera is novel but come on.
Yeah all these concepts would be fairly easy to explain to someone from 100 years ago. Sure they would be amazed of how much more compact and affordable modern photography had gotten, but the concept is unchanged. Icecream is nothing new, masks are nothing new.
Until the very late 90’s you might have to explain the concept of a digital camera. Sony introduced their first Mavica digital camera in 1997 and it took awhile for the tech to catch on with the general public.
That’s mostly because digital cameras were known at the time to be extremely shit. I remember having a webcam in the 90s. It kinda sorta worked, but even in high res picture mode is was 640x480 and the images looked like shit. So it would be more a case of convincing people a digital camera can be as good as an old school one. The concept itself would be familiar. In fact, calling it a webcam instead of a digital camera would be a lot easier for a 90s person to understand.
webcam? 90s? how the T1 fuck did you find the bandwidth
Take a single 640x480 jpeg and spend a minute and a half uploading it to Geocities.